@SilverPaw alrighty you are accepted

Branch families still have Bloodmadder's blood however and should still be subject to his curse; the difference between the main and branch families is just whether they are the first son or not. You can probably assume that the curse is diluted the further away from Bloodmadder himself you get, but considering that the government in the Tower apparently had to track down everyone with his blood and isolate them, spreading the blood around is still an issue.

Yeah , I was thinking of the diluted thing , if he's from a very far branch family the curse could be so diluted that it basically does not affect him

I'm not really sure about the diluted blood to be honest. If it's a curse applied by the Guardian, which it is, then the purity of blood shouldn't really matter, it should still affect everyone descended from Bloodmadder equally; it's not a topic that has a lot of information around it unfortunately.

The stated figure for a short lifespan is around 100; apparently that is increased for Rankers, but who knows how long they can live. The only thing that's certain is that they cannot gain immortality, since I think part of the curse is that Bloodmadder alone with live forever while his family always dies. There's even a Princess from the Hendo Lok family, but who knows how that works.

It never really says whether it gets diluted or not , but if you want your character to be indoctrinated into the family then you could have him go through a gauntlet where he's paired with a lot in of other regulars and they do various tests most of them being fight related and once he's one the gauntlet he must climb the tower to become a ranked and a official part of the family

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I'd also agree that there most likely is no dilution. Also, I wouldn't quite go so far as to say 'indoctrinated', but included, sure. I don't mind him having to go through extra tests and/or challenges to obtain the Hendo Lok family name, though whether they should be fights (esp. 1v1 fights) is questionable with him being a scout (since 1v1, a fisherman usually wins).

Honestly thats a wrong kind of way to think when it comes to 1v1s. Positions dictate where your preferences in figthing in a group are. As long as you have more Shinsoo Resistance, Techniques, and are overall more skilled and powerful position doesn't really matter in 1v1.

The problem with that is "more Shinsoo Resistance, Techniques, and are overall more skilled and powerful" usually means Fisherman; it's the main combatant role so logically they are the strongest members of the team. It's probably more accurate to say that the stronger you become the less things like position matters as you begin to be able to fill any role.

I mean Ran exists for one. And that guy fights as the main guy.

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Ran is both a Fisherman and a Spear Bearer, however. I don't know which was his first position, but he fills both roles as does Novick; usually it's Novick as the Scout and Ran as the Fisherman but if they need to they switch to Novick being the Fisherman and Ran being the Spear Bearer.

Again, positions aren't set roles; they only matter in team fights and only apply to what roles you are currently filling. If someone was capable of filling multiple roles then they would probably fill whatever gap needed to be filled, such as Ran filling in for a Spear Bearer because a team needs one even if it's not his best position. Generally the Fisherman is the strongest position because their role on the team is to be the one that does the fighting, with the other positions supporting that. That doesn't always mean the Fisherman on the team is the strongest member, but it does mean that it's the position with the strongest members on average.